And Then There Was Monday

My day started out good, but I think that going back to bed after making lunches is where I might have gone wrong.  I lost a critical hour.  I got up, stumbled to the kitchen to make lunches and then dragged myself back upstairs to try to sleep a little longer.  It was going well; chores getting done, baking a batch of cupcakes when my phone buzzed to tell me I had a text.  It was my daughter.  She has a pretty long off-block - about two hours -- I mean really?  What administrator thinks that giving a Freshman a two hour block of time in the middle of the day a good thing?  Do they really think they're going to use their time constructively?  Anyway, she wanted to go to lunch.

Okay, I can do this.  I mean it is her birthday after all.  I now have a 15 y.o. soon-to-be-driving girl in my house.  There are so many things in that sentence that scare the bejeezus out of me if I think about it too long, I can't tell you.  So, I text her back, I'll pick her up about noon, which gives me time to finish her cupcakes (Butter Cream Frosted Cupcakes with Lime Curd filling.  Oh.  My.) and still get her back to school, while making a quick run to the grocery store to get the remaining piece for the cupcakes and a few things for dinner (Sesame Chicken - the one on my Pinterest board is amazing - even though I did it wrong.)  Somewhere in here it would go downhill.  I came home to rush and make the Lime Curd and get the chicken marinating.  My 3 y.o. had made a couple comments about his neck, but he was still running around so I didn't think anything of it - off we went to do pick-ups.  The complaints about the neck increased, the whining increased, the wails when he moved his head wrong. . .We think at some point while playing with the dog he pinched a nerve.  Fun. 

So this post is a little late and the holy moly, four - YES FOUR - cards I did over the weekend for the BPC 28 Cards in 4 Weeks class, will have to wait until tomorrow.  If I'm lucky, I'll have five to show you and I'll remain current with the class WOOHOO!

This week we're using the Bingo Card.  I know several of you have a copy of it; if you still want one just email me and I'll send it out to you (lori@apronstringsdesigns.com).  There are two things going on this week with the Bingo Card - for those of you with the Card you will select a row; horizontal or vertical.  You'll work your challenges from the blocks in the row you select, in whatever order you wish, so long as you complete the row by Sunday evening.  All Bingo Cards are the same, so start where you want in the row, but work the row over the course of the week.  

For those of you without a Bingo Card, I'll be selecting random blocks from the Bingo Card and you'll complete the challenges as they are posted, as usual, and upload your layout to the corresponding post.  Because the cards have six blocks a row, layouts will be due on Sunday evening.  Today's challenge for those without a Bingo Card is include a self-altered piece of chipboard.

I've got a few things to do since I sat most of the evening after dinner with my 3 y.o.  Good night.

Happy Monday.